The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-02-26
4 LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.

MRS. LILLE PROK, OF Oiah2, Ore,
has killed seven bears this win
ter.
In the House twenty states voted
solidly for the Interstate commerce
bill.
WOUNDED KNEE is the name Of a
new post-offices in Shannon County,
D. T.
ED. HARVEY, OF Allentown, Pa, de-
plores the death OF g 81, 000imported
mastiff.
A BELLAIRE, O., man OF IT'S pounds
is TO eat 20o-pound hog in a month
on s. bet.
ENGLISH people in society resent
American criticism on Baron Tenny-
sons latest.
OLD settlers in Dakota say his has
been the severest winter ever expert
enced there.
NEW WORKERS ''go down to Boston"
but Bostonians always ''go over to
New York"
IN New York City, church property
Of the value OF $40, 100000 is exempt
from taxation.
PEws in DR.. Talmage's Brooklyn
Tabernacle sold for $4,000 more this
year thai last.
AwELL digger at Bridgewater, D. T.,
struck an abundance OF mica at g.
depth of s feet.
THE Philadelphia Record proposes
that the United States buy Canada
with the surplus.
A LITTLE slice has been cut of the
upper end OF Yellow stone Park TO let
a railroad find a footing.
AN Albany toboggan chute sends
the passengers down at the rate Of
nlnety-three miles an hour.
THE Baptists at Red Willow, Neb.,
cut through ice two feet thick in order
to immerse several converts.
A BENTON, NJ. tt, schoolboy put on
four pairs OF pantaloons and got
whipped on the hands.
THE great bronze door of the east
front entrance of the rotunda OF the
Capitol weighs 10000 pounds, and
cost $2S, 900.
New YORK CITY contributed $780,
900 in excess of what she received
from the state last year for the sup
port OF the common schools.
A GIANT named Wenklemeir, an Aus
trian, is a museum attraction in
London. He Is s feet 9 inches In
height, and is said to be the tallest
| man OF modern times.
SOME Boston women are beginning
to say that it gives them headache
to sit through g sermon with their
bonnets on, and ask why they can
not take them of in church.
JAY GOULD is said to have gone
through life very leisurely. No mat
ter how important question of time
may seem to be, he Is never in
hurry.
AT Weston, W. T., several attend
ants at a funeral became intoxicated
and picked row with two school
directors. After the ceremonies were
over q fight ensued, during which
| School Directors Turney and Creagan
shot Grant Byland, Sebastian Bluch-
er and another drunken man named
| Shepherd. The last named viii prob
ably die.
GREAT suffering exists on the Col
vile reservation, some eighty miles
north OF Spokane, ". T. Indefinite
rumors are to the effect that the
smallpox has broken outin the tribe,
and that great fatality prevails. The
snow has been SO deep this season
that their main dependence, that of
hunting, has failed and the govern
ment supplies have not been sufficient
to support them.
a SINGULAR freak OF the wind OF
last week is visible in a Deadwood, D.
t., building. A piece OF the roof OF
q store about feet wide and ~ feet
long, was lifted up, carried across the
building and deposited some distance
of. The hole has every appearance
OF having been made with ssw and
hatchet, and so artistically and clean
cut as to give the appearance OF
having been done by an expert car
Ienter.
NYM CRlSKLE says We have NOR
phine girls who use this drug to drown
mental trouble; belladonna girls who
employ this powerful herb to dilate
the pupil and give brightness to the
eyes; the arsenic girl who employs
this mineral to improve her complex
ion; the nitrate OF silver girls who ap-
ply this poisonous wash to the fair
to obliterate gray hair; and the nIc-
otine girl who smokes her cigarettes
privately because she enjoys the hab-
it. Nym Crinkle is right so far as the
girls are concerned but how is it about
the men?
JOHN and Jacob are twins 10 years
old, having each head and 81 chest,
but only one abdomen and one pair
OF legs for the two. Jacob moves the
right leg, John the left. They recently
resided in Vienna, where they were be
ing closely observed by physicians. for
| according to the last report regarding
them, John was very sick, and 1t was
expected that if Jonn died, Jacob
would have TO follow into thegrave. It
is reported that the twins were eu-
gagged to visit the United States under
| Barnum's g control, but in the event OF
their death, the monstrosiry Will 90
to an anatomical museum.
THERE are now published in the
United States Il, ,160 newspapers and
periodicals OF Ell classes. OF these
700 are religious and UNCONVENTIONAL
papers. About 900 newspapers are
published IN German, and foTty-two
in French. The Polish, Finnish and
| Welsh papers have the most unpro-
nounceable names, as for instance the
Dzienswiety ard the Przjaciel Ludi, Of
Chicago; the Yvhdpswaila in Sano-
mat, CT Ohio, and the Y Wawr, OF Usi-
ca, " Y. One paper is published in
Gaelic, one in Hebrew, one in Chinese,
and one 10 Cherokee.
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